October 2018 – The Government is a Platypus

What Banksy’s Shredded Art Teaches About Rights

Posted on 10/20/2018 by Platypus

I recently posted about how rights don't take away morality or ethics - nor do morality and ethics take away rights. Oddly enough the long discussion we've had as a society about violence, video games, drugs and pornography is a fertile setting for understanding how we can live in a rights based society and still find it okay to "protect" others from bad moral decisions. Perhaps you've heard of...
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If Elizabeth Warren is Special then We’re All Special

Posted on 10/17/2018 by Platypus

Elizabeth Warren finally took a DNA test to put her ancestry to rest once and for all. It was quickly reported that she had a full-blooded Indian ancestor within 6-10 generations. Well, there you have it! She has a new campaign add and an entire web page dedicated to her "Native American Heritage". This is an example of a lie snowballing. Once you tell the lie, you have to support the lie and the ...
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Feminism has taken women back to the stone age

Posted on 10/16/2018 by Platypus

I very much enjoy reading and listening to Camille Paglia (because of her rapid fire talking I rather read than listen). She's insightful and has a firm understanding of history at a fundamentally human level (if that makes sense). She likens the trend of photos taken from behind a woman (a la Kylie Jenner and her kin) to the ancient stone age fertility totems like the Venus of Willendorf. You kno...
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Do Violent Video Games and Movies Cause Violence?

Posted on 10/11/201810/11/2018 by Platypus

Rights don't take away morality or ethics - nor do morality and ethics take away rights. Oddly enough the long discussion we've had as a society about violence, video games, drugs and pornography is a fertile setting for understanding how we can live in a rights based society and still find it okay to "protect" others from bad moral decisions. I've heard of the movie "Faces of Death". It's a ...
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“Climate Change” is Back-Door Socialism

Posted on 10/10/201810/09/2018 by Platypus

The idea of artificially pulling Co2 from the atmosphere scares me. It does for a couple of reasons. First, we simply don't comprehend the balance of the Earth. Regardless of what computer models might have people believe we cannot predict. There are far too many variables for that. Forests thrive under high Co2. So-called global warming has been great for plant life and thus for herbivores and th...
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Kanye West explains his 13th Amendment comments – CNN

Posted on 10/03/2018 by Platypus

Kanye "Ye" West is in the news again for saying that the 13th Amendment should be repealed. As you can imagine this was not received well at all. This is the amendment that reads, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Of course ...
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Creator of World Wide Web Has a New Plan

Posted on 10/02/201810/02/2018 by Platypus

Tim Berners-Lee is worried about how tightly the Internet is controlled and wants to do something about it. “The intent is world domination,” Berners-Lee says with a wry smile. The British-born scientist is known for his dry sense of humor. But in this case, he is not joking." In our modern world, he's right. Cyber-wars could devastate a nation but leave every building standing. As time has gon...
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